Top 100 Quotes About Dickson: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Dickson

#1. When I was working on a Victorian-era novel, to get in the mood, I read several historical novels set in approximately the same period and place, and really enjoyed the detective novels of John Dickson Carr.

Tim Pratt

#2. With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

Steven Morrissey

#3. For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

John Updike

#4. A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

Gordon R. Dickson

#5. Humility applied to convictions does not mean believing things any less; it means treating those who hold contrary beliefs with respect and friendship.

John Dickson

#6. For a fleeting moment, I wondered how he turned out so untamed, so free, coming from such a refined and wealthy setting.

Alessia Dickson

#7. All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#8. Don't for once ever think that what you're doing is easy. If it feels that way, you're probably doing something wrong. Throwing words onto a page is easy. But writing, the real kind, is hard. It's damn hard.

Allison M. Dickson

#9. If Kurt wanted us, and if he really wanted the crystals, he would have to find us. The game was on and the clock was ticking.

Alessia Dickson

#10. Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Paul Dickson

#11. We're painted savages, nothing more, in spite of what we like to think of as some thousands of years of civilization. Only our present paint's called clothing and our caves called buildings

Gordon R. Dickson

#12. All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

Paul Dickson

#13. rewarded with another drag on her

Diane M. Dickson

#14. In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

Paul Dickson

#15. the faithholder is his faith. He and it make, not two, but a single thing. Since he and it are one, there's no way to take it from him. That makes him a very powerful opponent. In fact, it makes him an unconquerable opponent; since even death can't touch him in his most important part.

Gordon R. Dickson

#16. Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern

Athol Dickson

#17. Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.

Andrew Dickson White

#18. To write good history is the noblest work of man.

John Dickson Carr

#19. Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.

Gordon R. Dickson

#20. The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

Andrew Dickson White

#21. That's the point. If these Labour MP's were really working men, they'd have some sense. But most of 'em, or at least the ones I've met, seem to be half-baked intellectuals who've specialized in economics or some such dreary muck.

Carter Dickson

#22. By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats - that is, dairy products - were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#23. My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me.

Andrew Dickson White

#24. If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global impact over the next fifty years than the collectivist economics of Marxism and neo-Marxism have had during the half century just past.

Robert Dickson Crane

#25. Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

Carter Dickson

#26. The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it is, then the illusion is much more valuable and fine a kind of thing than the ass who wants to upset it.

John Dickson Carr

#27. Sometimes it seems that men
yes, and even women too!
if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.

Carter Dickson

#28. It's all about self-preservation now, dying doesn't scare me, it's whatever he has planned for me before it comes to the end that does. After all, it takes more courage to suffer than to die. And I'm not about to give in easily.

Danielle Dickson

#29. Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.

Paul Dickson

#30. A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Paul Dickson

#31. Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

Andrew Dickson White

#32. Writing is fundamentally an act of insurrection.

Kim Jocelyn Dickson

#33. The establishment of Christianity ... arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

Andrew Dickson White

#34. Oh you are especially priceless, he said motioning to Haven and I, widening the expanse of his grin. First you two break into my office... Haven stiffened and we briefly made eye contact. And then all four of you break into my lab. Quite a nosey lot aren't you?

Alessia Dickson

#35. Part of liberation is being free to do your own thing and letting everyone else be free to do theirs.

Christa Dickson

#36. Atheism certainly promotes a low view of humanity- how much lower can you get than thinking yourself an accidental by-product of a series of even larger accidents!

John Dickson

#37. Trust was, after all, a freely given commodity. Once lost, it was not easily

H. Leighton Dickson

#38. Live today as if it was ur last and don't ever say it is impossible cos nothing great was achieved with ease

Gordon R. Dickson

#39. Supernaturals is a broad term used to classify beings that include Elementals and numerous other creatures. Like what? The list is endless. Witches, Demons, Spirits, stuff like that. Wow, I commented dryly. It's like a giant Halloween party isn't it?

Alessia Dickson

#40. Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Paul Dickson

#41. More blood's been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man.

Gordon R. Dickson

#42. That sounds silly, doesn't it? Running away just because you don't want to hurt somebody's feelings? But did you ever think how much of our lives we spend,dodging and twisting and making things difficult for ourselves, to avoid hurting somebody's feelings. Even people with absolutely no claim on us?

Carter Dickson

#43. Tomes on the meaning of life. Poets and playwrights were

John Dickson

#44. I have taken all my good deeds and all my bad deeds, and cast them ... in a heap before the Lord, and fled from both, and betaken myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, and in him I have sweet peace!

David Dickson

#45. John Le Carre said that authenticity is less important than plausibility.

Gordon R. Dickson

#46. Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

Paul Dickson

#47. Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once

Lillian Dickson

#48. Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#49. You know, I can actually understand Kurt's logic. Why save an entire race of people when all they're doing is destroying? Starting wars. Destroying the environment. Destroying each other. Destroying what makes them human.

Alessia Dickson

#50. For sooner or later, no matter what fantastic long-range weapons you mounted, the ground itself had to be taken - and for that there had never been anything but the man in the ranks.

Gordon R. Dickson

#51. Pain was an eloquent tragedy; it spiralled out of control and ignited the fiercest types of passion.

Alessia Dickson

#52. In a morally and religiously diverse culture such as ours, humility is a much-needed key to harmony.

John Dickson

#53. There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.

John Dickson

#54. The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, ... is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.

Andrew Dickson White

#55. The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.

Andrew Dickson White

#56. Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

Paul Dickson

#57. Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

Gordon R. Dickson

#58. For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

Andrew Dickson White

#59. The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

Andrew Dickson White

#60. the same with dragons. So that morning, I shook the snow from my head and gazed

H. Leighton Dickson

#61. I, wanderer, stand awaiting the signal.

Gordon R. Dickson

#62. He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour .

Andrew Dickson White

#63. No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Paul Dickson

#64. I'm not an expert," said Cletus. "I'm a scholar. There's a difference. An expert's a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar's someone who knows all there is that's available to be known about it.

Gordon R. Dickson

#65. I'm often in a situation that I have to prepare a pudding for surprise guests, only to find that the only thing I have in my cupboard is a box of dried figs.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#66. Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#67. The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.

Andrew Dickson White

#68. The hardest part of writing a story is making bad things happen to good people. The hardest part of writing horror is knowing that it won't really get better for them.

Allison M. Dickson

#69. The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

Paul Dickson

#70. Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.

Gordon R. Dickson

#71. The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Paul Dickson

#72. Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

Paul Dickson

#73. That's what happens with your first love. It carves a hole in the muscle and fiber, so that you have no choice but to wear it like a birthmark.

Rebecca Tsaros Dickson

#74. Foolish man, the woman spat coldly. A stronger, smarter generation is coming. They will walk the earth as the ashes of your organization rain from the skies.

Alessia Dickson

#75. Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

Paul Dickson

#76. A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

Paul Dickson

#77. Memories, after all, were the only thing that remained of a person.

Alessia Dickson

#78. Nothing stood between Sheryl's heart and skin. She was whole in her sorrow, perfectly connected inside and out, soul and body united, swaying with complete abandon to a dirge that only she could hear.

Athol Dickson

#79. A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.

Gordon R. Dickson

#80. Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

Gordon R. Dickson

#81. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

#82. while I may not be able to trace the Artist's hand at all times, I can always trust his motives. The God who is in control of all things, who acts behind the scenes in all things, is also the God who willingly suffers. He is the one I can shout at, cry with and find comfort in.

John Dickson

#83. Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#84. Job interview question: Q: Where do you see yourself five years from now?A: Well, five years from now I see myself being able to answer this question.

Matthew Dickson

#85. You don't give up on the people you love, even when they give up on themselves.

Alessia Dickson

#86. We don't fall in love with a woman because of her good character.

John Dickson Carr

#87. Paperchase. And it is on a deduction drawn from

John Dickson Carr

#88. Belief is unprovable, but it is a stepping-stone to truth.
Faith is unshakable. It is neither belief nor truth but lights the way between them.
Truth is undeniable. It is both the intention and the end of belief, and the reward of faith.

Ken Dickson

#89. When there are a hundred dragons in the sky, it is Hell Down and Hallow Fire. It is the winds of a hurricane and the roar of the storm. We blot out the sun, we blacken the clouds, we churn the sea like foam. It is a magnificent, terrifying sight.

H. Leighton Dickson

#90. But the curator said nothing mattered so long as it looked all right to the ignorant." [Lady Brace]
"Sort of government motto. I see." [Sir Henry Merrivale]

Carter Dickson

#91. Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn't much bulkier than a Labrador Dog.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#92. A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

Paul Dickson

#93. I have committed another crime, Hadley,' he said. 'I have guessed the truth again.

John Dickson Carr

#94. Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us to amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls.

H. Leighton Dickson